Geforce GTX 770 vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 290, which features a GPU core clock speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 290		9876 points
Geforce GTX 770		7854 points
	Difference: 2022 (26%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290		29 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 770		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 15 (107%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290		283 Sol/s
Geforce GTX 770		70 Sol/s
	Difference: 213 (304%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 770		230 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 290 should theoretically be much superior to the Geforce GTX 770 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
	Difference: 95616 (43%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 should be just a bit (about 5%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5888 (5%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290 is superior to the Geforce GTX 770, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17728 (53%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.